I need a rule to internally rewrite several domains, with and without www:
www.a.com --> /m/n/o/
b.c.org --> /x/y/z/
The setup is Apache running locally on Windows (XAMPP). I've got the hosts file set up so all the domains point to localhost. I'd like every page to get redirected, i.e. I want to point each domain to it's own different root directory and have it work normally from there. e.g.
/ <-- Top level folder, everything is under here.
/root/of/domain/A/ <-- www.a.com
/root/of/domain/C/ <-- b.c.org
You have two choices.
(1) The one you asked (with mod_rewrite)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?a\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /root/of/domain/A/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^b\.c\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /root/of/domain/C/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Note: don't forget to replace example values by real ones. Also, make sure mod_rewrite is enabled.
(2) the cleanest way: configure virtualhosts directly (without mod_rewrite)
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "X:/path/to/root/of/domain/A/"
ServerName a.com
ServerAlias www.a.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "X:/path/to/root/of/domain/C/"
ServerName b.c.org
</VirtualHost>
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So I have a RewriteCond that turns:
domain.com/view.php?a=1
into:
domain.com/artist/name
I have a shorter domain: dmn.com that I would like to provide shortlinks for artists:
dmn.com/name
How can I get dmn.com/name to redirect to: domain.com/artist/name while keeping the shortlink in tact?
.htaccess:
#rewrite profile requests
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule artist/(.*)$ view.php?a=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
httpd.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ // <-- ??? not sure what to put here
ServerName dmn.com
ServerAlias www.dmn.com
</VirtualHost>
Since the directory "/artist" doesn't actually exist (since it's being rewritten), I can't seem to put /var/www/html/artist in the DocumentRoot of the VirtualHost config without Apache spitting back:
Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/html/artist] does not exist
I think what you want is not an actual redirection, but another rewrite.
You can't do it with a separate VirtualHost. Well, you can if you point it to the same DocumentRoot and duplicate your rules or load them from a common file, either via .htaccess or a Include directive.
You can also add the short domain name to your main domain ServerAlias
<VirtualHost *:80>
# This should point to your current config
DocumentRoot /var/www/artists_profiles/
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com ex.com www.ex.com
</VirtualHost>
Then you add the new rules to the top of the file:
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ex.com
RewriteRule ^(^.*) artist/$1
Then your existing rules should pick up. If you want to avoid the shortened domain from responding to the longer urls you could add a similar RewriteCond to the existing rules:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !ex.com
I have a domain, lets say mydomain.com.
I want every subdomain of this to load the contents of the directory with the same name... For example, if someone writes
http://sub.mydomain.com/index.php
I want to show him the contents of
http://sub.mydomain.com/sub/index.php
Still, I want it to show in the addressbar the http://sub.mydomain.com/index.php
The apache vhost is like
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName *.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/subdomains/subs/www
... more stuff ...
</VirtualHost>
so in the filesystem, the files for the example above would be under the directory
/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/subdomains/subs/www/sub
I tried many of the proposed solutions here, but most of them were redirects to some other domain/subdomain or end up in a redirect loop :(
tia
You need to add some rewrite rules that will examine the sub domain and then rewrite to the relevant path:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias *.mydomain.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.*)\.mydomain\.com
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /%1/$1
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/subdomains/subs/www
... more stuff ...
</VirtualHost>
What this will do is capture anything preceding ".mydomain.com" then rewrite it into the URL as %1, $1 will be the requested resource such as index.html
Be aware this might trip you up if www.mydomain.com is a valid domain for your site!
Try this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.[^.]+\.[^.]+$ [NC]
RewriteRule !^sub(|/$) /sub%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]
I am trying to always redirect people to
https://www.somedomain.com/URL
when they come in on a non secure port. This is because my SSL is for this url.
When someone goes to http://www.somedomain.com they get sent to
http://www.www.somedomain.com
Here is the htaccess rewrite that i am trying:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
Edit:
I am using a cPanel server, so making additional hosts is not going to work.
I am trying to always redirect people to https://www.somedomain.com/URL
I think this is all you need:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://www.somedomain.com/$1 [R=301,L,NC]
You'll want to not unconditionally add the www, if it already exists.
See: Prepend 'www' to an HTTPS url using .htaccess & mod_rewrite
Note that mod_rewrite is not the preferred way to do that. Using virtualhosts it's simpler. Just put this configuration (Source: apache wiki):
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.somedomain.com
Redirect permanent /secure https://www.somedomain.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
ServerName www.somedomain.com
DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
SSLEngine On
# etc...
</VirtualHost>
I want my apache to always force people to use https and to map IP based look ups to be forwarded to the server name. The following settings (in httpd.conf file) take care of the http to https redirect:
<Location />
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://my_server.example.com%{REQUEST_URI}
</Location>
But now I also want that if people type 192.168.1.2 they get redirected to my_server.example.com.
To sum up:
http://192.168.1.2/someurl -> https://my_server.example.com/someurl
I've tried several things but either my settings get ignored or I end up in a redirect loop.
any hints?
If you have access to the main config and not just .htaccess, this is something most easily done with separate virtual hosts rather than resorting to the Swiss Army chainsaw that is mod_rewrite.
<VirtualHost *:80>
Redirect permanent / https://my_server.example.com/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
Redirect permanent / https://my_server.example.com/
SSLEngine on
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName my_server.example.com
SSLEngine on
...real site config...
</VirtualHost>
It's not just numeric IP address access you generally want to redirect to your canonical hostname, but all addresses other than the known-good domains you control. Putting a default virtual host first in the config, that redirects (or serves up nothing) helps avoid certain DNS-based XSS attacks.
I figured out the following solution:
<Location />
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^my_server\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://my_server.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://my_server.example.com%{REQUEST_URI}
</Location>
it does exactly what I need.
I 2 domains with and without the www prefix. When a user visits any of these domains, I want it to automatically reroute to a chosen 1 of them.
For example:
domain.com
www.domain.com
domain.co.uk
www.domain.co.uk
When a user visits www.domain.com, domain.co.uk or www.domain.co.uk, it will rewrite to domain.com
So far, I have my apache2 virtual host block setup like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPass / http://localhost:3060/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3060/
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
ServerAlias domain.co.uk
ServerAlias www.domain.co.uk
</VirtualHost>
But this doesn't do the rewriting/rerouting. I need to also make sure that it takes into account any paths. For example, www.domain.co.uk/test would change to domain.com/test
Any ideas how I can do this in the virtual host block? I'm assuming I would split the 3 domains to be rewritten into a separate block and treat them there, but really not sure how to accomplish all the rules I need.
Per your comment, you want to redirect the three aliases to the main domain, and you've stated that you would like to do this within the virtual host configuration.
<VirtualHost *:80>
...
RewriteEngine on
# If using one of the aliases ...
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.co\.uk
# ... redirect to the main domain
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=302,L]
</VirtualHost>
You can also add the Rewrite* directives in your domain's .htaccess file.
To make the redirect permanent, change 302 to 301 - this basically instructs browsers and search engines to cache the redirect.